My point: life is not about outcomes, it's how you handle a… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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My point: life is not about outcomes, it's how you handle adversity. Suffering doesn't prevent you from being a role model, to the contrary --depends how you handle it. Popping pills does disqualify you.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.

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